On Wed, 6 Feb 2013, John P. Rouillard wrote:

> You may want to create a rule the fires only once on startup and
> populates a number of action variables rather than putting the evals
> into an action rule that will fire on every use unless you are somehow
> changing the environment on the fly.
>
>  type= single
>  desc= map environment vars to action vars
>  ptype= regexp
>  pattern= ^SEC_STARTUP$
>  context= SEC_INTERNAL_EVENT
>  action= eval %SECLOG ($main::ENV{'SEC_LOG'}); \
>        eval ....
>
> I the pattern is correct if you use sec --intevents IIRC.

Even if the values do change occasionally, you are probably better off setting 
them at startup, then re-checking them (either based of calendar rules or when 
a 
'reload values' pattern shows up in a log message) rather than evaluating them 
each time they are used.

David Lang

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